| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w19912
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 19912
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| Big-Box Retailers and Urban Carbon Emissions: The Case of Wal-Mart |
| Matthew E. Kahn; Nils Kok
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| 发表日期 | 2014-02-20
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| 出版年 | 2014
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | The commercial real estate sector is responsible for a large share of a city's overall carbon footprint. An ongoing trend in this sector has been the entry of big-box stores such as Wal-Mart. Using a unique monthly panel data set for every Wal-Mart store in California from 2006 through 2011, we document three main findings about the environmental performance of big-box retailers. First, Wal-Mart's stores exhibit very little store-to-store variation in electricity consumption relative to a control group of similar size and vintage retail stores. Second, Wal-Mart's store's electricity consumption is lower in higher priced utilities and is independent of the store's ownership versus leased status. Third, unlike other commercial businesses, Wal-Mart's newer buildings consume less electricity. Together, these results highlight the key roles that corporate size and centralization of management play in determining a key indicator of a firm's overall environmental performance. |
| 主题 | Environmental and Resource Economics
; Energy
; Environment
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w19912
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/577586
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Matthew E. Kahn,Nils Kok. Big-Box Retailers and Urban Carbon Emissions: The Case of Wal-Mart. 2014.
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